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1980–1989 Crater Lake, Klamath County, Oregon Class A #8025

Camper has night sighting near Crater Lake

The witness was camping with relatives south of Crater Lake and sleeping alone in a tent at night. While lying in a sleeping bag, the witness heard footsteps approach from the wooded side and saw a human-like outline shadowed in a distant campfire glow. The figure bumped the corner of the tent, shaking it, paused as if staring, then moved toward the front where it could no longer be heard on pavement.

Partial sightingSilhouetteFootstepsProperty disturbance
July 1978 Cave Junction, Josephine County, Oregon Class B #6724

Two young campers have frightful, dawn encounter near Cave Junction

Two sisters sleeping in a tent trailer awoke early in the morning to scratching on the bottom, top and sides of their bunk. When they unzipped a window they smelled a strong foul odor and saw dark brown fur pressed against the mesh. They woke their parents, but whatever was there was gone by the time the parents went outside.

Partial sightingOdorProperty disturbance
6 December 1975 Hood River County, Oregon Class A #671

Creature seen crossing in front of witnesses car

While driving east on the interstate at night in rain, the occupants of a car and surrounding traffic slowed for a tall dark figure running on and across the highway. The witness viewed the figure at close range from the passenger window and described eye contact and an expression of fear before it struck an oncoming pickup camper, ran up an embankment, and entered the trees.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingVehicle contact
1970–1989 Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/04/22/sc-ep-97-the-chicken-man

Tracks in Oregon (1970)

A logger and his family disappeared from their property in Oregon and were never explained. A researcher visiting months later found the home ransacked with the door ripped off, holes in the ceiling, blood, and footprints around the trailer.

TracksProperty disturbanceBlood or tissue
1970–1974 Rainier, Oregon #804840f3-2653-4f6e-998e-b89f4c7d6483

Sasquatch sighting near Rainier, Oregon (1970)

The witness describes three years of repeated encounters after his family moved onto a wooded hillside property. Four ape-like animals repeatedly approached the trailers, peered in windows, vocalized at night, left tracks, damaged structures, and killed livestock. The father shot the largest animal in the shoulder near the pump house, after which the animals moved faster and more cautiously but continued the activity. Forestry and law-enforcement visitors reportedly told the father to stop shooting, and timber workers and well drillers also encountered the animals.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingHowlVocalizationFootsteps +4
1968 Josephine County, Oregon Class A #677

Huge creature almost hit by a truck

Two relatives were at home late at night when they heard someone going through items on the back porch. They looked out and saw a huge Bigfoot-like figure going through their belongings. One of them screamed and the creature ran off.

Partial sightingProperty disturbance
April 1904 Sixes, Coos County, Oregon #f6d857df-e3db-48c7-adaf-4d0fa463d47c

Sasquatch sighting near Sixes, Oregon (1904)

In 1904 near Sixes miners reported a wild man seen three times in three weeks. Two men heard something walk around and shake their cabin corner, heard a frightful noise, saw it walk away, shot and missed. Later a similar visit at dawn ended with the creature hurling a four-pound rock after being shot at.

Partial sightingVocalizationDoor or window contactRock throwing
1904 Roseburg, Coos County, Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2018/01/12/sc-ep397-bigfoot-west-coast-wild-men

Sasquatch sighting near Roseburg, Oregon (1904)

Miners reported a seven-foot hairy wild man repeatedly shaking cabins at night and making frightful noise. Shots failed to stop it. On one morning it shook a door, was shot at, and retaliated by throwing a four-pound rock before vanishing.

Full-body sightingRock throwingProperty disturbanceFootsteps
real early spring Dallas, Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/12/24/sc-ep284-the-christmas-show

Odor near Dallas, Oregon

The witness describes multiple strange events at her rural home while alone, including a strong sulfur sewage odor, shuffling sounds, a blocked bathroom window, disturbed trash, broken lights, a ringing doorbell with no one there, and something hitting the house. She also often felt watched from the tree line.

OdorFootstepsProperty disturbanceDoor or window contact
Date unknown Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/08/23/sc-ep139-sasquatch-encounter-on-a-military-base

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

A logger living in a mobile home at a remote logging site reported being followed, having objects thrown, and seeing ape-like creatures. He told family that one paced and growled at him as he returned home. After about two months without contact, outsiders called police, who found the home destroyed and all but a young daughter dead; the daughter was said to have later been institutionalized.

Full-body sightingObject throwingGrowlProperty disturbance
last May Oregon #9de1e7c1-7793-4ab5-9cae-9c7d1b2bc4cf

Odor in Oregon

The guest and three companions camped several days in remote central Oregon to look into Bigfoot. They smelled a skunky BO odor, felt something brush tents, found large and human-sized barefoot prints, heard human-like grunts, found torn branches and an uprooted tree, had apples taken from high up with sticker skin peeled, and saw a bulky dark figure at the treeline captured as a blurry night-vision still. They left early due to bad weather.

OdorTracksGrowlTree breakWood knock +3
Pretty recent, really, over a two-week period Oregon #beb7de0d-b82b-4357-8e07-0ca6cbffbf25

Howl in Oregon

Over about two weeks of night deliveries, the driver heard howls and unexplained slaps on the box truck in the same area. One morning the headlights lit a tall slender hair-covered humanoid standing in the road. Noting its overlong arms and matted hair, the driver kept going as it stepped into lava rock terrain, then stopped to look but found nothing.

HowlVehicle contactFull-body sighting
the following fall John Day, Oregon #efa1c101-ce37-4eb0-b029-03279fd8c145

Footsteps near John Day, Oregon

The following fall archery opener, five hunters camped at the same site and the guest shot a buck in hot weather, butchering it and hanging the inedible carcass across the creek about nine feet up. After 10 p.m. they heard heavy footfalls and feeding grunts, fired guns to scare the animal, found the carcass pulled down, rehung it higher twice with the same result, then listened as it stripped rib meat requiring great grip strength. One companion left for Alaska afterward and the guest never returned to the area.

FootstepsGrowlProperty disturbance
normally in November Oregon #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/IC8JtU-2b4MDR-AZiJ5hAH6ZSUIuSqWtZAyrWgFtw3Y

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

At a rural house on the Oregon coast the household experienced repeated night howls, growls, talking-like sounds, dogs reacting, motion lights, a hand smudge, and large footprints in hard gravel. Young children repeatedly described dark hairy figures with flat noses and red eyes pawing or scratching at a bedroom window, motioning to come outside, and disappearing and reappearing.

Partial sightingEyeshineHowlGrowlVocalization +4
Date unknown Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/08/25/sc-ep45-bigfoot-destroyed-my-camper

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

The guest's Special Forces friend said his 12-man team was called to hunt an aggressive animal near Fort Lewis. They tracked through the Mount Hood area, cornered one of several animals, shot it, and removed it by helicopter. He described it as enormous, muscular, human-featured, fast, and known to throw boulders and use sticks.

Full-body sightingRock throwing
another night Oregon #c26984ee-6c28-49e8-a3e1-111b1a606630

Partial sighting in Oregon

On a different night while staying at the ranch cabin, the witness thought something was looking in the bedroom window. She was frightened, avoided looking at the window, and later slept on the owners floor. She did not get a clear look and remained uncertain what it was.

Partial sightingDoor or window contact
when I was 15, in fall when parents went hunting Eagle Creek, Oregon #b65b5be3-ebfc-481e-824f-f2aa8dcb01d5

Sasquatch sighting near Eagle Creek, Oregon

At age 15 the witness stayed home with her friend while her parents went hunting. After shutting the chicken coop door they saw a big white figure 75 to 100 yards away near the fence, visible from the waist up. A rock from that direction landed at the witness's feet, so both girls ran to the house, where the friend hit a clothesline, then locked up inside.

Partial sightingRock throwing
when I was pregnant with my fifth child Warm Springs, Wasco County, Oregon Related account #9785

Property disturbance near Warm Springs, Oregon

The witness remained at the same house at night and heard dogs barking and something striking the rain gutters without seeing the source.

Property disturbance
repeatedly at nightly intervals Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon Related account #15746

Property disturbance near Pendleton, Oregon

A light mounted high on a house corner was repeatedly broken and later found unscrewed over successive nights.

Property disturbance
BFRO YEAR: About 1970 Marion County, Oregon Class A #688

A teenage girl witnesses a female bigfoot steal meat from a cooler

The witness, then a teenager staying in a tent at a logging camp, awoke at night and saw a female fur-covered figure standing at an illuminated cooler on the porch holding meat. After a standoff ended by a scream, the figure left with the meat as others emerged and observed its receding form and footprints.

Full-body sightingTracksProperty disturbance